2672                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 791

said board of supervisors of elections shall certify said
candidates as duly nominated candidates for election for
the respective Board of Education offices. These names
and the name of the position for which they are
candidates shall be omitted from the ballot required by
sub-subsection (2) of this subsection.

(2) If after the expiration of the time, as
aforesaid, there are more than two nominees for the
county Board of Education at large, respectively for each
member then to be elected, said board of supervisors of
elections shall provide the means whereby all duly
registered voters of Montgomery County, irrespective of
party affiliation, may vote for said nominees for the
county Board of Education at a primary election to be
held at the time and place for holding the primary
elections of the political parties. In taking the
ballot, voting machines shall be used, provided, however,
that if the number of candidates submitted for vote at
the primary elections is too large for the practical use
of voting machines, the said board of supervisors of
elections shall supply paper ballots in the usual form
for use in voting for such offices. The eight persons
among those whose names are duly placed on primary
ballots as candidates for nomination to the county Board
of Education at large, in those years when elections
shall be held for four members at large to the county
Board of Education and six persons among those whose
names are duly placed on primary ballots as candidates
for nomination to the county Board of Education at large
in those years when elections shall be held for three
members at large to the county Board of Education, who
receive the largest number of votes at said primary
election, shall be the duly nominated candidates for
election to the respective county Board of education
offices. The board of canvassers for Montgomery County
shall, upon the completion of its canvass of voters at
said primary election, determine who are the duly
nominated candidates for election to the respective Board
of Education offices under the provisions of this section
and shall certify the same to the board of supervisors of
elections of Montgomery County. Any person who has
qualified under this section as a candidate for
nomination to the county Board of Education, and who
shall by virtue of the provisions of this section, be
required to run in a primary election, may on or before
sixty—five (65) days preceding the primary election as
herein provided, in a writing signed by him and
acknowledged before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments under the laws of Maryland, notify the
board of supervisors of elections of Montgomery County
that he desires to withdraw as a candidate for such
nomination. The petition of candidacy as to any
candidate so withdrawing shall, thereupon be and become